1:34:02 PM | 7/3/2007
On February 27 evening, Thai Nguyen 2007 tourism was launched with the theme “Return to Viet Bac mountainous capital of the Resistance War.
The opening ceremony was attended by Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong of the National Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung, officials of Thai Nguyen, ministries, agencies and thousands of local people and tourists.
Mr Duong Vuong Thu, Vice-Chairman of Thai Nguyen People’s Committee, Chairman of the Organizing Committee opened the ceremony pointing out that Thai Nguyen 2007 tourism is an important opportunity to promote tourism of Thai Nguyen and other Northern provinces at home and abroad.
60 years ago, on May 20, 1947, President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam Communist Party decided to establish Viet Bac ( 6 provinces of Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Ha Giang) as the base area for the August 1945 Revolution gaining back national independence and the victorious resistance war against the French colonialists. The Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded in Viet Bac, the Resistance Capital of Vietnam. Viet Bac with hundreds of historical and revolutionary relics together picturesque landscapes and tourist sites, resorts and cultural diversities of ethnic nationalities are great potentials to be tapped. Therefore, the start-off ceremony in Thai Nguyen “is not only a breakthrough for Thai Nguyen tourism in the process of integration but also promotion of cooperation with other provinces”, Mr Thu added.
Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said : “The Prime Minister asked Thai Nguyen to organize the National Tourism Year with the topic “ Return to Viet Bac Mountainous Capital of the Resistance War” so as to promote the revolutionary tradition among younger generations learning from the ethics of President Ho Chi Minh, turning potentials into socio-economic developments and diversified tourism industries: ecology, cultural and historical.
Su Ky
Vietnamese
